[lbo-talk] Today is Workers Memorial Day

[Shane Mage]

Chris Doss wrote:
>Does the holiday (Confederate Memorial Day)just mourn the Southern 
>dead? If so, I see nothing wrong with it.

There were huge numbers of Southerners, far from all of them black, 
who fought for the Union.  This "holiday" honors only the traitors 
(as defined by the Constitution) who fought for slavery.  That's 
what's wrong with it.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos